Beats
Beats noun - A United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop).
Gouges
Both words in one sentence
- Done again in 28 Weeks Later where, in a particularly horrifying case, an infected man mercilessly beats and then gouges out the eyes of a woman strapped into a hospital bed.
Source: Eye Scream / Film -
Castle beats him, stabs him and gouges his eye, all the while Pittsy is screaming vulgarities and continuing to attack.
Source: Determinator / Comic Books -
Extreme Melee Revenge: After the soldiers imprison and almost rape a woman and teenage girl, Jim beats the crap out of every soldier in the complex (aided by an unwitting zombie) and gouges out Mitchell's eyes with his thumbs.
Source: Film / 28 Days Later
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